Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of polychlorinated biphenyls by aquatic and terrestrial insects to tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor).

abstract：:There is growing concern over the effects of increased salinization on freshwater organisms, which are largely unknown for unionid mussels. Adult and larval Elliptio complanata were exposed to low-level salt concentrations to determine the effects on mussel survival, physiology, and reproduction. Adults were exposed t...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Blakeslee CJ,Galbraith HS,Robertson LS,St John White B

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study, soil samples were collected from 766 residential properties near the Tittabawassee River between Midland and Saginaw; near the Dow Chemical Facility in Midland; and, for comparison, in the other areas of Midland and Saginaw Counties and in Jackson and Calhou...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Towey TP,Chang SC,Demond A,Wright D,Barabás N,Franzblau A,Garabrant DH,Gillespie BW,Lepkowski J,Luksemburg W,Adriaens P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During laboratory and field studies, a fraction of contaminants in soils or sediments often is observed to be highly resistant to desorption. This desorption-resistant fraction may have significant effects on long-term fate and exposure of soil/ sediment-bound contaminants in particular, causing much reduced availabil...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Chen W,Cong L,Hu H,Zhang P,Li J,Feng Z,Kan AT,Tomson MB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of solid-phase microextraction (SPME) fibers as a dose metric for toxicity testing was evaluated for hydrophobic pesticides to the midge Chironomus dilutus and the amphipod Hyalella azteca. Test compounds included p,p'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (p,p'-DDT), p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (p,p'-DDD), p,p'...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Ding Y,Landrum PF,You J,Harwood AD,Lydy MJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight propylene glycol substances, ranging from 1,2-propanediol to a poly(propylene glycol) (PPG) having number-average molecular weight (M(n)) of 2,700 (i.e., PPG 2700), were evaluated in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) ready- and seawater biodegradability tests. Uniformity in test pa...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： West RJ,Davis JW,Pottenger LH,Banton MI,Graham C

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species sensitivity distributions (SSD) were constructed using acute toxicity data of various cladoceran species collected in five different aquatic systems. The aim of this research was to study the relative acute cladoceran community sensitivity in different aquatic systems. Current risk assessment procedures are ba...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bossuyt BT,Muyssen BT,Janssen CR

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative mussel biomonitoring studies often use laboratory-measured whole-body elimination rate coefficients (k(tot) in conjunction with concentration data from field-deployed mussels to estimate bioavailable steady-state contaminant concentrations (C(m(ss)) in aquatic systems. However, the validity of applying la...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Raeside AA,O'Rourke SM,Drouillard KG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine is a herbicide used most frequently in North America, but it usually is encountered in mixtures of agrochemicals. Few atrazine exposure studies have been conducted using mixed pesticides; therefore, little data are available to suggest reliable means of discerning effects attributable to atrazine. The common ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Lytle TF,Lytle JS

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of passive sampling devices (PSDs) for monitoring hydrophobic organic contaminants in aquatic environments can entail logistical constraints that often limit a comprehensive statistical sampling plan, thus resulting in a restricted number of samples. The present study demonstrates an approach for using the res...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Matzke MM,Allan SE,Anderson KA,Waters KM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute 96-h ammonia toxicity to three-month-old juvenile mussels (Lampsilis siliquoidea) was evaluated in four treatments (water-only, water-only with feeding, water and soil, and water and sand) using an exposure unit designed to maintain consistent pH and ammonia concentrations in overlying water and in pore water su...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Miao J,Barnhart MC,Brunson EL,Hardesty DK,Ingersoll CG,Wang N

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Union System for the Evaluation of Substances (EUSES) is a computerized model system to facilitate and harmonize health and environmental risk assessment of previously notified and new substances. For calculation of regional background exposure, a multimedia distribution model is used. In the present stud...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Matthies M,Berding V,Beyer A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfonamides are a widely used class of antibiotics; however, there are few toxicological data available with which to conduct environmental risk assessments for these compounds. Therefore, the toxicity of four sulfonamides (sulfaguanidine, sulfathiazole, sulfamerazine, and sulfasalazine) to Hyalella azteca was assess...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bartlett AJ,Balakrishnan VK,Toito J,Brown LR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further characterize avian toxicity to environmental levels of select per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), we established species- and tissue-specific PFAS chronic toxicity values (CTVs) associated with a lowest-observable-adverse effect level (LOAEL) threshold previously established for northern bobwhite q...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Dennis NM,Subbiah S,Karnjanapiboonwong A,Dennis ML,McCarthy C,Salice CJ,Anderson TA

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:With increasing application and commercial production, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) will inevitably be released into aquatic environments and affect the transport and toxicity of toxic metals in ecosystems. The present study examined how CNTs affected the biokinetics and toxicity of a toxic metal, cadmium (Cd), in the fres...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Liu J,Wang WX

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) petroleum crude oil was used to generate NIST water-accommodated hydrocarbon fractions (WAFs) for standardized assessment of crude oil effects on the copepod Amphiascus tenuiremis. Effects were assessed using a 96-well microplate, full life-cycle test. Bri...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bejarano AC,Chandler GT,He L,Cary TL,Ferry JL

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated Baetis spp. (mayfly), Hesperoperla pacifica (stonefly), and Brachycentrus americanus (caddisfly) susceptibility at the egg stage to esfenvalerate, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide. Eggs were obtained from the field or from field-collected gravid females at sites near Corvallis (OR, USA) and the Metol...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Palmquist KR,Jenkins JJ,Jepson PC

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aims at investigating the effects of Zn, Ca, and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) on the waterborne Cd bioaccumulation of a freshwater bivalve (Dreissena polymorpha). Mussels were exposed for 48 h at 3 µg/L of Cd in different media. Their physiological activities were assessed by separately measuring t...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bourgeault A,Gourlay-Francé C,Tusseau-Vuillemin MH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecological soil-screening levels (Eco-SSLs) were developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) for the purposes of setting conservative soil screening values that can be used to eliminate the need for further ecological assessment for specific analytes at a given site. Ecological soil-screenin...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sample BE,Fairbrother A,Kaiser A,Law S,Adams B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A market for bisphenol A (BPA) replacement compounds has emerged due to restrictions on the use of BPA. Some of these compounds were detected in the environment, yet little is known about their toxicological properties. In the present study, an avian in vitro toxicogenomic approach was used to compare the effects of f...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Sharin T,Williams KL,Chiu S,Crump D,O'Brien JM

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Locomotor performance is an important fitness-related trait in reptiles because of its potential influence on prey capture and predator avoidance. Because cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides disrupt neuromuscular signaling, reduction in performance seems to be a logical translation of this biochemical disruption to t...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Hopkins WA,Winne CT

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that Xenopus laevis is less sensitive than other amphibians to some chemicals, and therefore, that the Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay-Xenopus (FETAX) may have limited use in risk assessments for other amphibians. However, comparisons are based mostly on results of FETAX, which emphasizes embryos...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Yu S,Wages MR,Cai Q,Maul JD,Cobb GP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently reported quantification of the atmospheric sampling artifact for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) was applied to existing gas and particle concentration measurements. Specifically, gas phase concentrations were increased by a factor of 3.5 and particle-bound concentrations by a factor of 0.1. The correlation...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Webster EM,Ellis DA

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc sulfide clusters were synthesized and characterized at low micromolar concentrations to assess the effect of metal-sulfide ligands on metal toxicity to aquatic organisms in oxic environments. Recommended preparation times are greater than 2 h initial reaction of equimolar sodium sulfide and zinc nitrate, followed...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Bowles LC,Bell RA,Ernste MJ,Kramer JR,Manolopoulos H,Ogden N

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The octanol-water partioning of inorganic mercury decreased with increasing sulfide, supporting a model that predicts decreased fractions of neutral Hg-S species with increasing sulfide. These results help explain the decreased availability of Hg to methylating bacteria under sulfidic conditions, and the inverse relat...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Benoit JM,Mason RP,Gilmour CC

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural organic matter (NOM) can interact with engineered nanoparticles (NPs) in the environment and modify their behavior and toxicity to organisms. In the present study, the phytotoxicity of copper oxide (CuO) NPs to rice seedlings in the presence of humic acid as a model NOM was investigated. The results showed tha...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Peng C,Zhang H,Fang H,Xu C,Huang H,Wang Y,Sun L,Yuan X,Chen Y,Shi J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and water composition on the toxicity of copper to juvenile freshwater mussels (fatmucket, Lampsilis siliquoidea) were evaluated in natural and reconstituted waters. Acute 96-h copper toxicity tests werec onducted at four nominal DOC concentrations (0, 2.5, 5, and 10 mg/...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Wang N,Mebane CA,Kunz JL,Ingersoll CG,May TW,Arnold WR,Santore RC,Augspurger T,Dwyer J,Barnhart MC

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) were measured in sediments from 29 sites throughout Taihu Lake in China during 2 seasons to investigate spatiotemporal characteristics and source contributions using a 3-way source apportionment approach to positive matrix factorization (PMF3). Seasonal and spatial variations of ...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Tian YZ,Shi GL,Liu GR,Guo CS,Peng X,Xu J,Zhang Y,Feng YC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have investigated the potential reproductive effects of toxicants on Australian freshwater fish species. The present study uses the Australian rainbowfish (Melanotaenia fluviatilis) as a model for testing the potential effects of 17beta-estradiol. Groups of reproductively active rainbowfish were exposed to...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Pollino CA,Georgiades E,Holdway DA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full assessment of the impact of oil and chemical spills at sea requires the identification of both the polluting chemicals and the biological effects they cause. Here, a combination of chemical fingerprinting of surface oils, tissue residue analysis, and biological effects measures was used to explore the relations...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Lewis C,Guitart C,Pook C,Scarlett A,Readman JW,Galloway TS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to metal-contaminated water has been shown to result in a number of reproductive abnormalities in adult and larvae fish, such as failure of oocyte maturation and teratogenic effects. Recently, dietary uptake of metals by fish has been recognized as a critical route of exposure, however, the mechanisms of meta...

journal_title：Environmental toxicology and chemistry

authors： Simon O,Mottin E,Geffroy B,Hinton T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00